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To: Navy Patriot
Thomas, Roberts, and Alito I believe are excellent appointments and on the side of 2A, as well as Scalia. Two more would be a steamroller, but none would make things shaky, so that is why I think everybody wants to keep 2A out of Federal court just now.

Don't be too sure. Remember that it was Thomas who held that a conviction of a U.S. citizen in a foreign court was suitable grounds for lifetime denial of an American's second amendment rights.

Thankfully, his was a minority view on that one. But he deserves watching for such future rulings.

56 posted on 06/13/2006 12:22:14 PM PDT by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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To: archy
This is what Thomas said in the US SC opinion overturning part of the Brady Law:

"This court has not had recent occasion to consider the nature of the substantive right safeguarded by the Second Amendment. If, however, the Second Amendment is read to confer a personal right to "keep and bear arms", a colorable argument exists that the Federal government's regulatory scheme, at least as it pertains to the purely intrastate sale or possession of firearms, runs afoul of that Amendment's protections....Perhaps at some future date this court will have the opportunity to determine whether Justice Story was correct when he wrote that the RKBA "has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic..."

57 posted on 06/13/2006 12:52:23 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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